China’s Mid-Autumn Festival Sparked a 24-Hour Traffic Nightmare
This is my personal hell.
Published 1 month ago in Funny
China’s nine-day Mid-Autumn Festival, known as the Zhongqiu Festival, ended on Wednesday and according to China’s Ministry of Transportation, “regional passenger trips reached approximately 2.43 billion nationwide.” Which basically means half of the country went on vacation.
The surge in travel reportedly caused a 24-hour traffic jam at the Wuzhuang Toll Station in Anhui. Images of the 36-lane toll booth show an endless line of cars going nowhere. The booth services roughly 120,000 cars a day.
It’s a myth that adding more lanes of traffic solves traffic jams. What actually helps is managing traffic flow, which is admittedly much harder than creating more lanes for cars to drive on.
One more lane should fix it!
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